About Amorgos

About Your Accommodations

The lovely blue-and-white Hotel Lakki Village is just a few steps away from the sandy Aegiali Beach in Amorgos, and just a few blocks from the town center, which includes restaurants, shops, cafes, taverns, and stores. The hotel features an outdoor pool, air-conditioned rooms, wi-fi, a restaurant, and a charming outdoor courtyard.

• Six nights in the lovely Lakki Village Hotel
• Daily writing sessions with Kelly and Tanya 
• Hiking along mountain trails overlooking the sea
• Guided tour of an 11th-Century Monastery
• Swimming and relaxation by the beach and pool
• Oceanside ecstatic dance
• Fresh, delicious Mediterranean meals
• A Greek cooking class
• Afternoon yoga
• Guest lecture on contemporary Greek writing
• Optional Athens tours with our hosts, Imagine Greece Retreats, in the two days before the retreat officially begins.
• Camaraderie and connection with a warm circle of kindred spirits!

Kelly Dwyer is the author of three novels, most recently Ghost Mother, published by Union Square & Co. in 2024 (available at Barnes & Noble and wherever books are sold)and numerous plays that have been produced nationally and internationally. A native Californian, Kelly was educated at Oberlin College (where she met Tanya!) and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and now divides her time between Wisconsin and Los Angeles. She has taught at the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival and in the University of Wisconsin system for many years, and also works as a developmental editor who loves to help her students and clients achieve success.  

As a young adult, Kelly enjoyed visiting Greece, where she spent time in Athens and on the islands, and traced the Peloponnesian War in a rental car. She is very excited to be returning after many years for the Rejuvenate & Create Transformational Women's Writing Retreat!

Tanya Shaffer is an award-winning playwright and author of the travel memoir, Somebody’s Heart is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa. Her plays have been produced Off-Broadway and by major regional theatres, and have toured to over forty cities in the US and Canada. Her work has appeared on Salon and in more than a dozen anthologies. She publishes the Substack Tanya Shaffer’s Off-Leash Chronicles, in which she writes on topics ranging from creativity to parenting to travel to spirituality. (For more information and to purchase Tanya's books, go to Tanya Shaffer books.)

For the past seven years, Tanya has worked with hundreds of writers through her Off-Leash Writing Workshops and Memoir & Fiction Workshops, and through private coaching and editing. Last year she realized her long-held dream of leading creative retreats in magical places by co-hosting her first Women’s Creativity Retreat on the Big Island of Hawaii. She can’t wait to join forces with fellow Kelly to create an unforgettable retreat in Greece!

For more information and to stay in the know, 

go to Tanya Shaffer Retreats

    WE CAN'T WAIT TO 

REJUVENATE & CREATE

WITH YOU IN GREECE!